Archive for May, 2007
Dvorak Hexed
PC Magazine columnist John Dvorak is in a tizzy about the “Dumbing Down” of our society, thanks to journalists who think we are morons. A recent article about the cracking of the AACS encryption code didn’t properly refer to the hexadecimal code used:
An online uproar came in response to a series of cease-and-desist letters [...]Winning the Interview
“Selling yourself is merely the process of convincing an employer to change their job description to one that coincidentally describes you.”
- Ike Pigott, at Talk It Up.
A Prime Time Mystery
{Scientists still don’t know why the cicadas emerge every 17 years.}
That’s not an exact quote from ABC News reporter Claire Shipman, but it is fairly close. On this morning’s GMA, she filed a report about the emergence of “Brood XIII,” a noisy event to be sure. For a moment, I was baffled as [...]A ‘Rochambeau meeting’
“The worst kind of negotiation to attend is a multi-party Rochambeau: they throw the rocks, run with the scissors, and leave the papers unsigned on the tables.”
- Ike Pigott
Visionaries
“‘Visionary‘ is a hazardous profession - for every one that successfully embraces the future, there are one hundred who embrace a future that never comes to pass and are too blinded by their vision to let go.”
- Ike Pigott
